Tape 101: Liminal Descent

Acceptance will lead you to freedom. Story: You're placed in the shoes of Alan Thompson an employee to the M.P.R.F and tasked with exploring The Complex. During a scouting mission another member, a Dr. John Nightingale has gone missing and while Alan with his trusty RC car go out looking for him, they find that The Complex has shifted and they're lost, so you set out to find John and escape your hostile environment. Now I always liked the concept of the Backrooms, while the story telling around this concept can be mostly hit and miss (mostly it's misses), I found the story in Tape 101 mostly fine. It's nothing really special with it really mostly boiling down to "I'm stuck in the backrooms and I think I'm losing my mind". The notes you find scattered around add some nice background lore, but nothing really that fleshes out the concept more than what you've already seen. Graphics: Now this is where the game is definitely not lacking and that is the visual department. From the starting moments where you enter the backrooms and you see the yellow wallpaper and hear the fluorescent light buzzing it's truly quite incredible. The deeper you get and the more twisted and distorte…

Tape 101 is an amazing backrooms or liminal space game with a cool story and great gameplay. Especially for something made by just two devs this game is truly something special. I found it was very well optimised as far as performance goes and my GPU was only at 40 percent use when playing at ultra using a locked 30FPS. I did fall through the map 3 times however as the car is very buggy towards the end. Overall it's a great game but I would have preferred it with many autosaves due to the issues with the car. Overall I had lots of fun though so I highly recommend. 9/10 or 10/10 if the car issues get fixed. W game and W devs.

Pretty fun and interesting take on the backrooms. The ending/conclusion of the plot is pretty awful though.

It was pretty fun, especially adding the rc car for extra exploration. The style of the different levels was pretty good as well, and I kept feeling threatened and chased even though there was nothing. A good liminal space game needs variety of areas, atmosphere and good ideas. This game had all of that. Too bad it didn't have a good ending though or maybe it did and I just missed it.

Loved this game!

Well it's a good one. No entities, just a good atmosphere.